LHTH Unit 5

Believe it or not, we have actually done LHTH everyday this week including Tuesday and Thursday!  It is going great.  Normally one of the girls helps me teach Wiggles.

They take turns on Tuesday and Thursday helping him do Abeka pages while I am teaching the other kids.

This week was review from A-D.  I didn’t get a lot of pictures, but we had fun.  I am loving using Playtime Devotions as his devotional.

 

Riding our Thomas trains on the A.  BTW, never use your husband’s double sided industrial tape (he is an electrician) on carpet and leave for more than a day.  It is like cement.  I had to pry the A from the carpet and you can see where it left a mark in the shape of A.  Lesson learned.  If you can’t find your masking tape, do not grab something just because it looks similar.

We learned about Joseph and his coat of many colors.  Here Wiggles is making a rainbow of stripes like the coat on his coffee filter.

Tadpole helping Wiggles with his B project.

His finished B project. 

This is from LHTH.  We thinned some glue with water.  Wiggles painted it on his B with a q-tip and then sprinkled decorating sprinkles on top.  It turned out great and colorful.

This has been an excellent week and we are now moving smoothly through our day with all the kids and schooling.

Unit 4

We finally finished Unit 4 of LHTH. It tooks us 3 weeks! Public school got out the last week of May so we had a lot of awards assemblies to go to as well as Bubba’s kindergarten program. Then, I started schooling the big kids at home. So finally Wiggles has finished Unit 4 and we are back on track schooling.

Here is Wiggles putting Tigger Tails (macaroni shaped like Tigger’s tail) on his Dd page for LHTH.

Big Sis helping Wiggles write D and d in cornmeal after practicing with our sandpaper letters.

Trying it by himself.

These are our art work from the local library’s storytime.

I also made a schedule to keep all of us on track. I color coded it by kid and the together activities are their colors together…their names are on it but I blacked them out for the web.

Still Learning

We are still doing LHTH, but we have slowed down quite a bit since I have started schooling the big kids also.  This week, I plan to get back into doing LHTH M,W,F with Wiggles.

  

This is some horrible picture taking on my part.  Here Wiggles is jumping to “Rachel”.  We are learning about Isaac and his sons.  What you can’t see is the strip of masking tape that he was jumping from to his stuffed animal that was Rachel.  Then we marked his jumps and compared them shorter, farther, and closest.  As I said, horrible picture taking skills. 

Here he is reading his Bible.  He always wants to read it himself after we are through.

Here he is doing tiny pom poms through the straw hole of a Cane’s cup.

Pouring kidney beans from the bucket to the measuring cup.

   

I’ll just be honest.  I don’t know what he is working on here.  He is having snack and working on one of his sheets while watching Word World.

This is one of his extras.  BTW, he shares a room with big brother (my 2 yr old does not have this many game systems).  He does have a Little Leaps Learning System which is great.  Here he is playing Thomas with some help from Big Sis.  These aren’t video games and you (or one of your bigger kids) do have to help your child with it.

http://www.leapfrog.com/en/families/little_leaps/little_leaps_learning/lilps.html

Leap Frog, unfortunately, has discontinued these.  They are much better than Vsmile baby.  You can still find them on Ebay for a good price with the dvd’s. 

Terrific Tuesday

We got back into our groove with LHTH.  We have had a hard time getting to going with it, but that should be over now.  We are on Unit 4.

Letter D

Number 4

 

He was supposed to tiptoe around the D and instead crawled and traced it.

Reading our Children’s Bible

Gluing on our 4 worksheet

I actually started this unit last week, but we didn’t make it far.  I had been watching a friend’s son who wasn’t into doing it with us.  I tried to do it with both him and Wiggles together.  He is 4, but he just didn’t want to do anything but ask to watch tv and play video games.  Rather than Wiggles see the I don’t want to do this attitude and maybe pick it up, I chose to just put LHTH on hold until I no longer was watching the other child.

Summer is here

We only have 2 more days of school for the biggers.  Bubba is graduating kindergarten!  Yeah!  So this last week has been really busy and I haven’t really done formal “tot school”.  I did do it today and have some pictures and will try to post tomorrow.

I am so excited to have all of my kids home with me finally.  I have all my books for HOD LHFHG, BHFHG, DITHOR, and my Learn at Home Grade Series.  I have spent several days compiling my reading lists for them and looking them up on the library catalog online.  I found all but 2 I need.  WOO HOO! 

There will definitely be posts from Tot School and LHTH this week. 

Throw Away Thursday

  

Here Wiggles is tracing his Sandpaper Letters.  He is doing super well at tracing and saying the sound of the letter.  I think we are about ready to do some corn meal writing during review week with LHTH.

I had to put this one in.  We didn’t have a Children’s Bible reading in our lesson plan for LHTH today, but I had already pulled the book from the shelf when gathering what I needed.  Wiggles didn’t want me to put it up even though we didn’t “need” it today.  He wanted Abraham as he tried to get the book.  So I handed it to him.  We have been reading about Abraham in it and he sat down and started to read it to me.  I couldn’t make out much but all the men in the pictures were Abraham as he “read” to me.

Here is Wiggles using his Dr. Suess Alphabet cards.  I love these.  They are set up like the book.  Big A Little A What begins with A.  Alligator with a Dr. Suess pic of an alligator.  Also, they are tactile.  Similar to the way I teach him with the sandpaper letters. 

 

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I love the Dr. Suess beginner cards.  They have shapes, numbers, opposites.  Lots and lots to choose from and they are fun.  They have teaching ideas included.  So far I have the alphabet and shapes but plan on getting more.

Wacky Wednesdays

We did our Abeka worksheets today.  I have kind of been doing some Abeka and some LHTH through the week.  I was doing LHTH M,W,F and Abeka and Kumon worksheets on T, TH. 

Our Cc cow sheet.  We glued little squares of red construction paper to the Cc’s.  This is too funny not to share.  You see the cowboy in the right side of the picture?  Well the list is of c words to look at and read to your child.  Well, we are all Indiana Jones fans and the kids have the ps2 game and such…Well, when I brought out the Cc worksheet…Wiggles looks at it and I thought he was going to start saying Cow, Cow…Nope, Indy Indy Jones!

 

Here are 2 of our Abeka number 3 worksheets.  I’ll be honest they have too many sheets for the numbers.  It is overkill.  I am going to quit doing all of them.  We will do 1 letter and 1 number sheet on Tuesday and Thursday.  The rest I will just ignore.

Here is our Kumon Let’s Sticker and Paste sheet.  He had fun putting the animals on it. 

Marvelous Monday (a bit late)

I am a bit behind on my blog updates this week.  We are steadily working through LHTH now that we have gotten the hang of it.

I love the neat little things we do in LHTH.  Here Wiggles is being Abraham serving his 3 guests.  We used Big Sis’s real tea set (shh! it is a secret).  I actually had a hard time getting him away from this activity.

Reading in A Child’s First Bible is going so well.  I am surprised at how much he understands for his age.  He isn’t the world’s best talker so I was nervous about even starting a program this year.  It turns out that it was the best thing we have done.  He has really blossomed the past few months in the speech and language area.

Here is our Count on Me and Hide and Seek C pages.  I know the picture is horribly tiny.  My camera batteries are dead so the past few posts have been with my phone camera.

I think this was Unit 3 Day 3.

Our Mother’s Day

We had a great Mother’s Day!  We went to the air show on base and got to see Aaron Tippin perform!  I had a blast and Wiggles enjoyed it as well as the rest of the crew and Daddy.

We got pictures with him and his autograph!!!!  I didn’t have my camera but a friend had theirs and I am awaiting her sending me the pic of us with Aaron Tippin.

Here are some pictures I got on my camera phone.

Big Sis with Aaron Tippin!  She was thrilled. 

I just had to post about our fun Mother’s Day!  We also went out for Mexican to eat.  It was a great wonderful way to spend Mother’s Day!

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s car was also at the National Guard part of the show.

Daddy took this picture of Tadpole.

I took this picture and have been criticized for not getting closer and my poor picture taking skills.  Keep in mind this is a camera phone…

Hope this makes Daddy happy.  I edited in PSP to make it look close up.

Up close.

Hope everyone else had a Great Mothers Day!

Wacky Wednesdays

 

We did our LHTH Unit 3 Day 3 today.  We made a letter C on the floor out of masking tape and Wiggles rode his Thomas trains around it. 

We did an art activity after reading about Abraham and Sarah and God’s promise to give them a son.  We made a tent with stars in the night sky to show God’s promise to give Abraham more children than there are stars in the sky. 

I used our tray again and had our materials ready.  We used tempera paint and were supposed to use wadded up paper towel…instead I used some of my HWT triangle sponges.  It was much neater and he was practicing for pincer grip.  He was to draw stripes on an index card to fold in half for the tent.  I was lucky and our index card already had alternating highlighting for him to have lines to trace over already.  We taped our tent to our stars in the night and we were done.

Tuesdays at Tinytown

We went to Tinytown today.  I have to say it was enjoyable and Wiggles is getting a lot of exercise and gross motor skills workout.  I’m still not sure it will be an every week occurrence, but this week was fun.

We did Unit 3 Day 2 of LHTH.  We were supposed to glue yarn to a paper with the letter Cc on it, but I had no yarn.  So I cut up some tissue paper like for gift bags.  It went pretty well. Instead of trying to do it on the fly, I made up a tray.  I put the cut up paper in a bowl and the glue was in the tray too.  Then Wiggles and I applied glue drops around the C and he was left to put the paper on the glue drops unassisted.  This worked really well.

He also put spaghetti into the holes of our container.  He has to concentrate on this one.  Again I used a tray to keep it focused and contained in one area.

Wiggles loves Thomas the train and you will see Thomas in a lot of our pictures.  Wiggles was working on sorting pom poms by color and he also sorted Thomas into the blue bowl with pom poms.